By MELINDA J. OVERSTREET
for Glasgow News 1
With few action items on the agenda for its regular meeting Monday, the business that took center stage – so to speak – before the Glasgow Common Council was the annual report from Kevin Myatt, planning director for the Joint City-County Planning Commission of Barren County.
He provided the city’s governing body with a few graphs and charts to illustrate trends over the past few years in the county. For example, the number of major subdivision lots in the county had shot up from around 60 in 2021 to more than 150 in 2022 to nearly 275 in 2023.
“In our office, we classify major subdivisions as six tracts or more, parent tracts,” he said.
Myatt noted the connectivity of the individual cities with each other and with the county as a whole.
“We grow as one,” Myatt said.
He said that projects up and down the Interstate 65 corridor in nearby counties also are already beginning to impact development here as well.
With anticipated growth coming, he spoke about a few proactive measures being implemented at his office and with associated functions to help speed and/or streamline the development process. For example, the local building inspector has now gotten approval to be able to do inspections for the state, and subdivisions without any new streets or with fewer than 20 lots can now be reviewed and approved by the planning staff without having to go through the planning commission.
In other business, with all members present, the council unanimously approved a resolution declaring as surplus approximately 26.13 tons of cut stones that were removed from the city’s retaining wall along North Race Street. Mayor Henry Royse said he’s received a lot of inquiries about what was being done with the stones, but it is as yet undecided about how the city will dispense with them, e.g. as a whole or in lots and, if the latter, what size lots.
The council also received notification of the mayor’s intended appointment of Joey Botts to finish the unexpired term of Gary Hartell with the Barren County Economic Authority.
The next regular meeting of the council is at 6 p.m. May 13 in Council Chambers on Floor 2 of Glasgow City Hall, 126 E. Public Square.
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